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Dry Landing
Washington, D.C. – When one of their two motors went dead above the wasteland of Arizona, as they were flying to the west coast, the pilot and crew of this giant 20-ton Martin Mariner (PBM) Seaplane landed on a dry lake. Though the plane suffered minor damage, lack of facilities forced the Navy to dismantle it and ship it out piece by piece. The pilot, Lt. Scott S. Fitzgerald, USNR, of High Point, North Carolina, and the other six airmen have been commended for “exceptional airmanship.”
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Invasion Rehearsal
London – Thousands of British glider and parachute troops staged one of the biggest maneuvers yet held in cooperation with the Royal Air Force and American troops poised for the invasion of western Europe. Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder and other high British and American officers watched the operation, held somewhere in England while the Nazis were frantically second-guessing on the time set for D-Day. A group of “Horsa” gliders are shown being moved to take-off.
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BENEFICIAL “BLIZZARD”
ENGLAND – Looking like the work of a blizzard in “Greenland’s icy mountains,” foamite covers this U.S. Flying fortress and firefighter, after a fier in the wing and one motor of the big ship had been extinguished. Flak set the blaze while the Eighth Air Force bomber was laying “eggs” on the Nazi fighter field at Achmer. Lt. Bernard T. Kuhlmeier, of Ft. Madison, Iowa, who flew the flaming ship back to its base in England, said the bomber was so full of smoke and fumes that he “couldn’t even see the instruments on the panel in front of me.” Nevertheless, he brought her home.
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FLAGGING MEN OFF
SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND – Lt. H.W. Collins, Army Air Forces pilot from Atlanta, GA., flags off a group of thunderbolt dive bombers as they set out on a mission over Louvain, Belgium. Pilots at the station take turns flagging the planes off as they roar out to smash airfields, cut communications and knock out Nazi batteries in preparation for the coming invasion of Western Europe.
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READY FOR THE “JUMP-OFF”
ENGLAND—Transports and invasion craft of all types and sizes can be seen in this photo, showing a part of the armada of some 4,000 ships that carried Allied forces to the shores of Normandy. Tonight, British and Americans have penetrated to a point some nine and a half miles inland from the beach.
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“Black Widow” Comes Out Into Light of Day
Hawthorne, California - Recently announced by the Army Air Forces, pictures of the new Northrop P-61 “Black Widow” Night Fighter have just been released. Armed with everything but the kitchen sink, the Black Widow is literally a flying gun platform and is the first Army fighter revealed since Pearl Harbor as well as the largest and most powerful pursuit plane ever built. The Black Widow is the first functional night fighter of the war. Planes used for night fighting - some with great success- have been modifications of aircraft originally planned for other types of missions and have lacked top efficiency in night battle. The P-61 was started in 1941 and an experimental model first test-flown in May 1942. Reminiscent of the P-38 with its twin fuselage, the Black Widow is equipped with the latest night fighting equipment and powered with two Pratt and Whitney Engines. As a night fighter it develops pursuit speed while retaining the easy flying characteristics and low landing speed necessary for night operations.

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All these pictures have been censored by the Army Air Force, and the blank spots indicate where deletions have been made.
Looking somewhat like the P-38 Fighter, the “Black Widow”, newest night flyer takes to the skies in this flight of three of the powerful aircraft. Black spots indicate censorship.
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Floating Kitchen
France – A converted barge that once sailed up and down the Thames, this floating mess hall was the first Landing Barge Kitchen to reach the Normandy beachhead. Purpose of the vessel is to supply hot meals to the crews of small craft now doing their hundred-and-one jobs in the Channel, which range from ferrying men and supplies to laying smoke screens for air attacks. Here crews of the small craft line up for their noon meal.
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